The Democratic party has only two candidates to date who seem to have garnered much interest from both the public and the democrats themselves. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders seem to get the most attention from the press and the party machinery itself. It makes a person believe that the Democrats are like organized crime, where everyone must kowtow to the party bosses, and guess who is bossing everyone around. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, who else? Certainly not her husband who looks like he is hiding way behind the skirts that she never wears...in her cases, the pants in the family.
Bernie Sanders has drawn young people to his events, gathering great crowds, which appears to be an antiHillary kind of protest and Bernie is the only person to run to see in this lackluster group of wannabes. There are three other men, Lincoln Chaffee, Jim Webb, and Martin O'Malley, who are trying to get noticed, but so far none has had even one interviewer from the press feature them in any story. Will that change after the debate that is going to be held this Tuesday through CNN? I wonder.
I cannot stand Hillary's shrill voice to even think about bothering to tune in to listen to the debate hosted by Anderson Cooper. Only curiosity to see if the other three gentleman will get a chance to become a household word might cause me to bother with it at all. O'Malley has presented a few ads saying that the presidency is not a crown to be passed around. The real problem with Hillary is that she has been co-president with Bill Clinton, first Lady, and then Secretary of State. Her greed and gluttony for power is now obvious in her wanting to muzzle every other candidate so she can take home all the chips in this poker game.
On the Republican side, Donald Trump and Ben Carson are leading in the polls for the Republican nomination. I will not dissect this phenomena yet because I just cannot understand what is going on in this party that the three top candidates have never one day served in a political office of any kind at all. What the heck gives that they are the top picks? It is mind boggling to me.
The sorrow is that the media is who thinks that all the publicity that they can focus on a candidate is who the public will follow. That means that the news media is attempting to control the election to influence the voters to vote for the candidates that they push through their hourly broadcasts. Can the media have that much influence?
Well, Ross Perot shot to the top in attention getting tactics years ago just due to appearing on the Larry King Show. He did not campaign that much but he was a regular visitor who drew inordinate interest from people. He knew he was rich so that he could take someone's ideas and use them as his own and win votes that way. Donald Trump must have paid a lot of attention to him then for he has been doing much the same thing in a totally different way.
That is where we are now. 15 candidates or more are vying for attention on the Republican campaign trail, and each are vastly different in personal appearance, presentation, and captivating performances when under fire, but all the same spouting the same philosophy that gets them GOP votes. All are pretty much mirror images of one another regarding party platform. So image must be the real focal point that makes a voter decide upon which of the candidates will get their vote. There is no diversity allowed on stage amongst these soundalike, lookalikes. The only reason that Donald Trump is getting all the attention is that he is not trying to be politically correct. He has been shooting from the hip, and the GOP'ers love it.
The Democrats are waiting to see if Joe Biden will decide to run for the top job too. That might make the run for the top nod in his party more interesting if he does decide to gather his delegates while he may. The poker game changes in a big way if he does decide to run.
Believe it or not, Joe has a good shot at winning his way into keeping the WH for the Democrats, but time will tell. The Republicans have not yet decided which of their Big Boys or One Lady can be the leader of their party come nomination time. Usually, the pendulum does swing, after a long unhappy time with a given party like the Dems, but the Republicans appear to be in disarray so that one can only wonder if they will get their act together to finally join hands in taking WH back.
This big stakes poker game is just getting started. Time will tell.
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